late to work - yesterday

I didn't get to the office until almost 11 today (yesterday at this point .. oops, forgot to save this last night), so I didn't actually eat a formal lunch. Oh well. Such is life. Not a terrible lot going on of interest either. I ended up not playing WoW much, wrote this post (and didn't post it) and then finished my book and went to sleep... boring....

Breakfast:
Coffee + sausage, egg and cheese croissant

Lunch:
Pear

Dinner:
2 taco supremes
slice of rhubarb pie
another slice of rhubarb pie

broken harddrives and free food

An exec in town from IBM had a broken laptop, dead HD, so that ate a lot of the day today. Good news, she left with a working laptop, at least it was working... needs replaced drive.

Breakfast:
Coffee and Banana

Lunch:
Free sandwiches from conference room

Snack:
Cookies

Dinner:
2 hot dogs (again)

Not a special day gastronomically(did i manage to spell that right?!). But not terrible either ... now need sleep.

sun and hot dog buns!

Way to much food over the weekend, feeling laggy and sleepy still and I haven't eaten hardly anything substantial today. Probably also got a bit to much sun, it's not as hot as direct sun in Texas but you can get sun stroke deceptively easily when there is a warm day with a little wind but no clouds. I did spend 5 or 6 hours on Sunday and Monday more or less in direct sunlight. I should probably wear a hat some too.

Food for Tuesday...
Breakfast:
Coffee and Banana

Lunch:
Half a turkey club wrap and a small cup of veggie soup

Snack:
Pear

Dinner:
2 hot dogs, steamed and in buns (more about hot dog buns below)
few tortilla chips and guac


Hot dog buns ... this seems like such a simple thing that should more or less not mean much in the overall hot dog experience, so long as they are made of decent bread and not stale. In New England you can get buns that are cut differently than we can get in Texas and they toast/grill nicely making the hot dog eating experience exceptional, IMOHO. Here is a picture of a properly created hot dog bun with just the right amount of crust and plain bread surface area for toasting.
I may just not have looked hard enough for these "top sliced" buns in TX but so far I have not reliably found them.



Ok so maybe I am just being ultra picky ... but I like what I like!

long weekend .. food and stuff

Memorial day weekend... i didn't plug my computer in much this weekend so I didn't keep a log of what we had to eat .. needless to say if you knew my family you would know that I ate to much and most of it wasn't good for me. :) but it was tasty!

I can't remember what I had for what meals but here is a list of the food thatt was available at various times over 3 days of random bbq's

Potato salad, egg salad, tuna salad, macaroni salad.
chips of all kinds, guac, and pickles.
hot dogs, hamburgers and chicken. I think there was even some hot sausages.
2 kinds of homemade baked beans.

All in all it was a good weekend. I had planned on going fishing, but when i went for a short walk to do some target practicing in the woods behind my house I ended up with ticks on me and i HATE ticks. So that was it for the woods for a bit. I still feel like i have them crawling all over me. yuck ..



Some doggies at the BBQs, Rain (Left), Star(Bottom), Honey(Right Top), Meka(Right Bottom)

oops forgot to post this before going to bed

was a long slow day. worked till just past noon and then went home to track down a package that UPS was supposed to deliver. I had not requested a signature needed but apparently the shipper did. Good news is that the apartment management signed for it. Just took UPS 4.5 hours to get from my front door to about 200 yards away because apparently they set aside all the undeliverables for the property management company and drop them by the main office all at once. This is a great way to handle it but if you are tracking a package online it gets confusing. Then I finished off some work stuff and played a little bit of WoW, got level 63 and managed figure out where to get one of my rogues skills caught up with her level. Watched some tv and time for bed, not the most interesting Friday night nor the most productive but ehh ... still breathing at the end of it so it's a good day I guess.

Breakfast:
Coffee and PB&J sandwich

Lunch:
Left over boiled dinner

Dinner:
Left over boiled dinner

Snack:
Chocolate ice cream

Boiled dinner!!

I worked from hoem today so at lunch I stopped by the store and got a corned beef and some potatoes. I had cabbage and carrots. Oh and I bought a yellow turnip (rutabaga). The house smells great and I absolutely love corned beef.

Corned beef boiled dinner.

Breakfast:
coffee
peanut butter and jelly toast

Lunch:
2 slices pepperoni pizza
coffee ice cream

Dinner:
Corned beef, cabbage turnip, potaoes and carrots

Idol is over and more green chili stew

Well, I hate to admit this but I watched a fair amount of American Idol this year and I am happy with the results. Congratulations David Cook. It's nice to see someone win who I like to hear sing, though I would not have been unhappy had it gone the other way. A very good final round of singers. Also a great show over all.

Breakfast:
Coffee and Chocolate stick

Lunch:
Pulled chicken sandwich (disgusting)
Italian Wedding soup

Snack:
Pear
cranberry apple juice

Dinner:
Green Chili stew - even better yet again.
Pringles

Green Chili Stew revisited

Rough day fighting with hardware at work and scheduling new Linux kernel patches that we need to get in soon. Can't really say much more about that but it's starting to get close to crunch time again. Didn't feel much like cooking tonight, but luckily I already had some green chili stew in the fridge that has been there since last night.

Breakfast:
Banana
Coffee

Lunch:
1/2 italian sandwich
1/2 chicken salad
cranberry apple juice

Snack:
pear

Dinner:
green chili stew - sooooooo much better reheated

Pan fried salmon

Not much of note today... so here is what I had to eat. Dinner was pretty good but not spectacular. I'll make it again though it's tasty. Blackened is better though, but to blacken you need cast iron not thin crappy stainless or a nonstick, you probably also want better air evacuation than I have. No need to invite the fire dept.

Breakfast:
Coffee and chocolate stick

Lunch:
Chicken Noodle Soup
Mushroom Ravioli and Broccoli

Snack:
Pear

Dinner:
Pan fried salmon
Steamed veggies
Sauté onions

Snack:
(yeah i know ... but i was HUNGRY)
Pringles

New Mexican food craving satisfied! and some junk food :(

Ok so today was frustrating. I wanted to go for a hike, but i got up to late and by the time i got out of the house and lunch eaten it started to rain right as I got to the place I was going to wander around the woods in. So i went to the store and while wondering around aimlessly looking for something interesting to cook I saw some pork stew meat on sale. Bought some cans of green chili and a few other ingredients and made a green chili stew without a recipe.


Breakfast:
Does toothpaste and mouthwash count?

Lunch:
Cheeseburger and fried at burger king
Vanilla ice cream cone (Kimball farms not BK)

Snack:
Funny bone (peanut butter filled chocolate covered Hostess snack)

Dinner:
Green chili stew (recipe below)




Green Chili Stew
1.5 lb pork cut into bite sized pieces
1 lb baby red potatoes cut into 1/8ths
3 onions chopped
1.5 tbsp minced garlic
32oz chicken broth or stock
12oz canned green chilis
1 can red beans
salt
pepper
chili powder
oregano

Saute the pork and onions with just a little bit of canola oil to help keep it from sticking. The pork will render plenty of oil but to start with it will be sticky and dry. once the pork looks half cooked and the onions are starting to get transparent add the rest of the ingredients starting with the chicken broth. I like to add the chilis last, saving 1/3 of them until the simmering is half done, but that isn't strictly necessary, just looks nice with slightly green bits left. Cook time is up to you ... basically all you NEED to do is soften the potatoes to the point where you can eat them, but i think it tastes really good with about 2 hours of simmering.

This is NOT overly spicy but that will depend on the green chilis you use. I used (because all i could get) Ortega fire roasted greenchilis in 4oz cans. It tastes good, there is a tiny little bit of heat but it is hardly noticeable. If you want it more spicy move up to a hotter pepper. I plan to do this again this fall when I am back home in austin, with hatch which will likely bring the heat up some but not terribly. I like the result of the mild chili flavor but to each their own... fire it up with a little ground chipotle would be good for a smokey heat.

A not so healthy day

Breakfast:
Grapefruit juice

Lunch:
Oldtimer Burger w/cheese at Chilis
Skillet Quest w/chips
Guiness

Snack:
French Vanilla ice cream

Dinner:
Pasta shells and crushed tomatoes cooked with diced onions

WoW new and old mounts

	The Turkey/Chicken mount that is the default mount for blood elves. (I chose a purple one, there is also green and umm maybe blue?)
	My new mount which is a Frostwolf Howler or something like that ... big white wolf! Spent several hours doing Alterac Valley battlegrounds to get this mount. Was worth it too!

Friday finally!!

Well it's finally Friday like the post title says. Spent a large part of the day bringing hardware back up after the move a couple weeks ago. Not all of our hardware is up to date on firmware, guess i need to deal with that.

Not going up to Glen this weekend to visit family, so I guess I will be playing a lot of WoW. The weather looks like its going to suck most of the weekend :( Oh well. An excuse!!!



Breakfast:
Chocolate stick
Large Dunkin Donuts coffee

Lunch:
Garden Tuna Wrap (green salad with tuna salad in a wrap)
Clam Chowder

Dinner:
Leftover Fried Rice and boneless bbq pork ribs

Snack:
5 sour pickles

Dull day ...

Work was dull, lots to do but nothing exciting and I played WoW some, helped Michelle with some quests and finished a few for myself. But I thought I would try and keep up on the food logging...


Breakfast:
Croissant with sausage, egg and cheese
Grapefruit juice

Lunch:
Spicy Shrimp wrap with chips and pickles
York peppermint patty

Snack:
Pear
Orange juice

Dinner:
Pork Fried Rice
Chicken Fingers
BBQ boneless pork ribs


Nothing worth takign a picture of. Time for bed. Sorry this wasn't more interesting.

Wednesday's food and activities

Today was a busy day at work, though not because I had a lot to get done specifically but mostly because I had to fight for 2 hours of my morning to get a network connection and then scramble for the rest of the day to makeup for that lost time.

Over lunch and after work I did manage to run 6 battlegrounds in Worlds of Warcraft and get the final Alterac marks I need to get a new mount. Those of you not familiar with WoW just nod and smile... it doesn't really matter, just know i wasted several more hours on a silly computer game.

In keeping with my hope to keep myself from eating to much and the wrong things here is the food I had today.

Breakfast:
Glass of grapefruit juice
Leftover spaghetti from last night

Lunch:
Clam Chowder
Apple Cider

Snack:
Cashews

Dinner:
Scrambled eggs with ham, onions and potatos

Today's food log...

Breakfast:
Dunkin Donuts Coffee
chocolate stick

Lunch:
Turkey Salad wrap w/ cranberries and pecans
Chips and sweet pickles

Snack:
Pear and York Peppermint Patty

Dinner: (seen here)
Bertucci's Shrimp and Lobster Spaghetti
Fresh Bread w/herbs and olive oil

The new cube

My new office at work. Sub-compact.

Hi there

This is my first blog posting here, obviously. Welcome to my little corner (well one of them) of the of the internet. I don't know for sure what this blog will contain in general but seeing as the blog fad is well under way and all I thought I should officially participate... A few things that will become apparent immediately to all of you out there...
- I make a lot of typos.
- I don't always fix my typos, but if you could see the first draft... I do fix some!
- My grammar is terrible

I apologize for these things, I'll do my best to correct what I can but no guarantees. Read at your own risk.

One of the ideas that I have for here is to try and get my weight under control though self imposed peer pressure. I'm going to TRY and keep at least a daily log of my exercise and eating habits in an effort to try and correct some seriously bad habits. I will also try and post reviews of restaurants and anythign else that I find interesting. Hopefully some decent pictures as well.